Coping with the loss of a loved one can be a confusing and sad time for children. Inspired by her own family's traumatic experience, author Charlene Khaghan wrote A Tiny Step Forward to help kids make sense of their loss. Khaghan, an educator and therapist, wrote the book with author and assistant district attorney Jill Starishevsky.
In the beginning of the book, a little boy is sad because someone (we later learn it was his mother) has passed away. "Sad things happen", the book begins. And there are all sorts of legitimate feelings a child may have about that: anger, sadness, confusion. But it's important to take one tiny step forward back toward happiness, holding on to the positive memories of the lost loved one and coming to understand that things will be different from here on out, but that's okay.
The back of the book even includes space for attaching a picture of someone your child may have lost, and writing down thoughts and memories of that person.
Kids are pretty resilient, but when tragedy strikes, they do have questions. A book like A Tiny Step Forward can help answer those questions and show kids that while someone they loved might be gone, they are not forgotten.
A Tiny Step Forward is published by Archway Publishing and is on bookstore shelves now. I received a free review copy.
In the beginning of the book, a little boy is sad because someone (we later learn it was his mother) has passed away. "Sad things happen", the book begins. And there are all sorts of legitimate feelings a child may have about that: anger, sadness, confusion. But it's important to take one tiny step forward back toward happiness, holding on to the positive memories of the lost loved one and coming to understand that things will be different from here on out, but that's okay.
The back of the book even includes space for attaching a picture of someone your child may have lost, and writing down thoughts and memories of that person.
Kids are pretty resilient, but when tragedy strikes, they do have questions. A book like A Tiny Step Forward can help answer those questions and show kids that while someone they loved might be gone, they are not forgotten.
A Tiny Step Forward is published by Archway Publishing and is on bookstore shelves now. I received a free review copy.
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